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As I began to read this I was completely intrested in this article. I have not been around the Swine Industry or really know a whole lot. My first exoerience was on a 3,000 head of farrow to finsh CAFO farm! I LOVED IT! I got to wear special clothing and a special mask since I am exposed to other livestock animals ( the mask and clothing helped protected me from exposing any dieses or anything speical the hogs might of had to my livestock), needless to say it was amazing! Anyhow the pork producers are doing amazing things with there operations!
In a operation you want to have the best possible weaning weight, characteristics and market weight possible. For hogs the target market weight is 275, two years ago the weight was 255 and two years from now they expect the target market weight will be 285 of lean muscle cream of the crop hogs! To me that is amazing but not so much of a suprise because as agriculture continues to grow so will the quality of livestock animals!
Overall, the mood among the big producers is extremely cautious. Corn priced as much as $8 a bushel means slim profit margins.Smithfield
“At the end of the conversion we will have the same pounds of pork and 30,000 less sows,” he says. “There will be an increase in average daily gain and a decrease in mortality and cull rates.”
The pink represents the exerpts I took from the article from agtoday! Needless to say the Swine world is lookin up!
As I began to read this I was completely intrested in this article. I have not been around the Swine Industry or really know a whole lot. My first exoerience was on a 3,000 head of farrow to finsh CAFO farm! I LOVED IT! I got to wear special clothing and a special mask since I am exposed to other livestock animals ( the mask and clothing helped protected me from exposing any dieses or anything speical the hogs might of had to my livestock), needless to say it was amazing! Anyhow the pork producers are doing amazing things with there operations!
In a operation you want to have the best possible weaning weight, characteristics and market weight possible. For hogs the target market weight is 275, two years ago the weight was 255 and two years from now they expect the target market weight will be 285 of lean muscle cream of the crop hogs! To me that is amazing but not so much of a suprise because as agriculture continues to grow so will the quality of livestock animals!
Overall, the mood among the big producers is extremely cautious. Corn priced as much as $8 a bushel means slim profit margins.
“At the end of the conversion we will have the same pounds of pork and 30,000 less sows,” he says. “There will be an increase in average daily gain and a decrease in mortality and cull rates.”
The pink represents the exerpts I took from the article from agtoday! Needless to say the Swine world is lookin up!
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